Public Transportation Disasters

Police are responding to Cox Road where a school bus and a pick truck crashed near Penfield Hill Road, police said. No injuries have been reported, said police spokesman Lt. Ron Milardo. The road remains open.

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Police are responding to Cox Road where a school bus and a pick truck crashed near Penfield Hill Road, police said.
No injuries have been reported, said police spokesman Lt. Ron Milardo. The road remains open.

A West Texas prison bus probably hit a piece of displaced highway guardrail, then veered onto a median, down an embankment and struck a freight train, killing 10, according to a preliminary report released Thursday.
The report, prepared by the National...

Four Texas prison inmates injured in a prison bus wreck near Odessa that killed 10 people have been discharged from a public hospital to prison medical facilities.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says Corrections Officer...

An electrical malfunction that filled a Washington subway train with smoke, killing one passenger and sickening dozens more, continued for 44 minutes before the Metro transit agency shut off power to the affected rail, federal investigators said...

The hospital treating victims of a deadly prison bus crash in West Texas said Thursday that relatives aren't being allowed to visit the inmates because of a longstanding policy, despite demands from the inmates' families to see them.Eight inmates and...

An oil tanker collided with a passenger bus in southern Sindh province early Sunday morning, leaving 59 people dead, police and hospital sources said.
The accident took place about 30 miles northeast of the port city of Karachi at about 1 a.m. local...

A tour bus flipped onto its side Thursday while on an agricultural sightseeing trip near the Arizona-Mexico border, injuring more than 20 people.Yuma County Sheriff's Office spokesman Alfonso Zavala said the bus had been on a dirt road near a field and...

A school bus failed to yield to railroad crossing and stop signs and collided with an empty freight train Monday in North Dakota, killing the bus driver and a 17-year-old student and injuring 12 other people, the Highway Patrol said.
The accident...

A train crashed into a school bus in eastern North Dakota on Monday afternoon, killing two people and injuring several others, officials said.
A 17-year-old student and the 62-year-old driver were ejected from the bus and sustained fatal injuries when...

NEW HAVEN — A 14-year-old girl driving a car hit two cars before hitting a bus at Whalley and Sherman avenues midday Tuesday, police said.
Officers had been called to the area on reports of a car hitting a school bus. The driver of the car was a...

NEW BRITAIN — One person had to be extricated from a car after it collided Monday with a school bus at the intersection of Whiting and Glen streets, school officials said.The bus was on its way to New Britain High School with 25 students on board. No...

A head-on crash between a passenger bus and truck in the Sindh province of Pakistan killed at least 56 people, including women and children, and injured 20 on Tuesday morning, according to local police and doctors.
The Karachi-bound coach was headed from...

ENFIELD — A 14-year-old Enrico Fermi High School student was hit by a car while crossing the street to get to a bus stop on Thursday morning, police said.The student was transported to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries, deputy police Chief...

Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 521 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians during a month-long campaign in Syria, a monitoring group which tracks the violence said on Thursday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the vast...

I love those rare occasions when vacation lemons turn into lemonade, as long as you are willing to squeeze the lemons yourself. Last winter, when the forecast got worse by the hour for the latest storm primed to hit the East Coast, I was certain our...

With the closest known U.S. cases of Ebola diagnosed about 160 miles away in Dallas, Cary Griffin is taking no chances.
If, as the former correctional officer fears, the virus spreads to hundreds of people, Griffin is headed to...

NORWALK — A 32-year-old New York City man shot and killed by a trooper outside a tour bus on I-95 late Tuesday night had attacked passengers on the bus, state police said.
The man, who police identified Friday afternoon as Ye Hua Jian of Chinatown in New...

Kurdish defenders held off Islamic State militants in Syria's border town of Kobani on Sunday, but the fighters struck with deadly bombings in Iraq, killing dozens of Kurds in the north and assassinating a provincial police commander in the west.
The top...

ATLANTA — Riding the Bears team bus Sunday on the way to the Georgia Dome before an unlikely 27-13 thumping of the Falcons, rookie linebacker Christian Jones focused on the last six months more than the next 60 minutes.
The longer Jones thought about...